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Originally Posted by Graham
No, because words only have power over you if you *let* them.
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They only have power over you if you let them but they have power over others. Someone calling you a pervert may have no 'internal' effect on you but it may well have an external effect through others. If the same person that had no effect on you internal was to go round your local community calling you a pervert, it might well affect how those people react to you in the future. Words are powerful things. They are expressions of peoples thoughts AND they shape peoples thoughts. We should all be careful what words we use and how we use them imo.
The same with the N word. You might choose not to let being called that affect you, but the perptuation of the denegration of someone because of their race and colour affects the whole of society and the use of this word perpetuates that idea. Words DO matter (imo)